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The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what?s to come. ?When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history.?Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed?and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. ? While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim "back alley" operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion